Peter Sloterdijk

You Must Change Your Life

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Produktbeschreibung

In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present: the human as a practising, training being, one that creates itself through exercises and thereby transcends itself. Rainer Maria Rilke formulated the drive towards such self-training in the early twentieth century in the imperative You must change your life .
In making his case for the expansion of the practice zone for individuals and for society as a whole, Sloterdijk develops a fundamental and fundamentally new anthropology. The core of his science of the human being is an insight into the self-formation of all things human. The activity of both individuals and collectives constantly comes back to affect them: work affects the worker, communication the communicator, feelings the feeler.

It is those humans who engage expressly in practice that embody this mode of existence most clearly: farmers, workers, warriors, writers, yogis, rhetoricians, musicians or models. By examining their training plans and peak performances, this book offers a panorama of exercises that are necessary to be, and remain, a human being.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2014
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 760g
• ISBN-13: 9780745649221
• ISBN-10: 074564922X
• Artikelnr.: 40887829

Autorenporträt

Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design and the author of many works including Critique of Cynical Reason.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: On the Anthropotechnic Turn 1 The Planet of the Practising 1
The Command from the Stone 19 Rilke's Experience 2 Remote View of the
Ascetic Planet 29 Nietzsche's Antiquity Project 3 Only Cripples Will
Survive 40 Unthan's Lesson 4 Last Hunger Art 61 Kafka's Artistes 5 Parisian
Buddhism 73 Cioran's Exercises Transition: Religions Do Not Exist 83 From
Pierre de Coubertin to L. Ron Hubbard I The Conquest of the Improbable: For
an Acrobatic Ethics Programme 109 1 Height Psychology 111 The doctrine of
Upward Propagation and the Meaning of 'Over' 2 'Culture Is a Monastic Rule'
131 Twilight of the Life Forms, Disciplines 3 Sleepless in Ephesus 160 On
the Demons of Habit and Their Taming Through First Theory 4 Habitus and
Inertia 175 On the Base Camps of the Practising Life 5 Cur Homo Artista 190
On the Ease of the Impossible II Exaggeration Procedures Backdrop: Retreats
into Unusualness 211 6 First Eccentricity 217 On the Separation of the
Practising and Their Soliloguies 7 The Complete and the Incomplete 243 How
the Spirit of Perfection Entangles the Practising in Stories 8 Master Games
271 Trainers as Guarantors of the Art of Exaggeration 9 Change of Trainer
and Revolution 298 On Conversations and Opportunistic Turns III The
Exercises of the Modern Prospect: The Re-Secularization of the Withdrawn
Subject 315 10 Art with Humans 331 In the Arsenals of Anthropotechnics 11
In the Auto-Operatively Curved Space 369 New Human Beings Between
Anaesthesia and Biopolitics 12 Exercises and Misexercises 404 The Critique
of Repetition Retrospective From the Re-Embedding of the Subject to the
Relapse into Total Care Outlook: The Absolute Imperative 442 Notes 453
Index 487